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Vardan Azatyan<\/div>

Vardan Azatyan (PhD) is an artist by training. He is an art historian and translator of theory and philosophy. Since 2003 he has been teaching art history and theory at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Armenia. He has taught in a number of other institutions including Columbia University in New York, the Dutch Art Institute in the Netherlands and the American University of Armenia. His articles have been published in\u00a0Oxford Art Journal<\/em>,\u00a0Springerin<\/em>,\u00a0ARTMargins<\/em>\u00a0and other international periodicals. He is the author of Art History and Nationalism<\/em> (Yerevan: Actual Arvest, 2012) and Who Made the Revolution<\/em> (Yerevan: Johannissyan Institute, 2020). He has compiled and published along with an extensive research article the Armenian translation of Ashot Hovhannisyan\u2019s dissertation Israel Ori and the Armenian Liberation Idea<\/em>. He monograph Cold War Art History: The Battle of Ideas and a Soviet Periphery<\/em> is forthcoming in 2021 with Routledge. He has translated the major works of George Berkeley and David Hume into Armenian.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Siranush Dvoyan<\/div>

Siranush Dvoyan is a literary studies scholar and lecturer of Comparative Literature at the American University of Armenia. She is co-editor of Arteria (www.arteria.am<\/u><\/a>), an online magazine for cultural criticism and author of numerous scholarly articles. Her research interests include the culture of Armenian communities in post-Soviet realms, new diasporic experiences and new articulations in literature. She is author of A\u00a0Reading of Text<\/i><\/em>\u00a0(Yerevan: Actual Arvest, 2013).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Tamar Gasparian-Hovsepian<\/div>

Tamar Gasparian-Hovsepian is a specialist in public relations and organizational development. She was a freelance journalist and television reporter for seven years in Yerevan before moving to New York in 2006. Since then she has worked for various arts and humanitarian organizations where she focused on fundraising, development and communications. Most recently she served as the Community Liaison for Manhattan's Community Board One, a New York City government agency. Tamar holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Art History and Theory from the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts and an MA degree in Urban Affairs from City University of New York.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Armenak Grigoryan <\/div>

Armenak Grigoryan is an artist, art historian and curator. In 2008 he graduated from the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, the Department of Graphic Art. In 2011 he defended his PhD thesis at the Department of Art History of the Academy entitled \u201cThe Historiography of Armenian Medieval Art in the Armenian periodical Press of the late 19th<\/sup> and early 20th<\/sup> centuries.\u201d In 2009-2010 he attended the program Cultural Project Management at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Yerevan. Armenak has participated in numerous artistic projects both as an artist and curator. In 2017 he curated the annual Festival of Alternative Art at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art in Yerevan.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Inna Kholodova<\/div>
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Michael Martirosyan<\/div>

Michael Martirosyan is an artist. In 2013 he received his B.A. and M.A. at the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, the Department of Graphic Art. He works in the TUMO center for creative technologies as a workshop leader and content developer\u2024 In 2014-2015 he worked at Robert Sahakyants<\/em> animation studio, then in 2015-2016 at Plexonic<\/em> game development studio as an artist. He has participated in numerous exhibitions and artistic projects.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Lousineh Navasartian<\/div>
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Nare Sahakyan<\/div>

Nare Sahakyan is an art historian and curator. Currently, she is pursuing her graduate studies in Art History and Curating at the American University of Beirut. She is teaching a course titled \u201cArt Historical Methods of Seeing\u201d at the Medialab art educational program. She has graduated from the Institute for Contemporary Art in Yerevan with a specialization in the history and theory of contemporary art. In 2014-2017 she has published art critical essays and curated several research exhibitions in Yerevan. Her interests include the history of art history as a discipline and translation as a cultural act. She obtained her B.A. at Yerevan State University\u2019s Department of Journalism and previously worked in the profession.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Lusin Shaboyan<\/div>
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Hermine Stepanyan<\/div>

Hermine Stepanyan graduated with a BA(Hons) degree from the Department of Philology at Yerevan\u2019s State University in 1986 and received her MA in Social Psychology in 2008 at the RA Academy of Science. She began her career teaching in village schools across Armenia. Subsequently, she went on to produce and write the educational children\u2019s show \u201cGalaxy of languages\u201d at the \u2018Prometey\u2019 TV channel. She became the head editor of the educational and children\u2019s programmes\u2019 department at \u2018Shoghakat\u2019 TV from 2003. From 2021-2022 she produced and hosted \u2018B\u0585\u0585n Conversations\u2019 at scientific-educational media company B\u0585\u0585n TV.She is also a screenwriter and producer of several documentaries and animated films and an author of songs\u2019 lyrics. Her first fairy tales\u2019 collection \u2018Fairy Tales from under the Pillow\u2019 is in the process of being published by Zangak publishing house. Hermine Stepanyan is now the head of the Regional Programs at the Ashot Johannissyan Research Institute for the Humanities. In 2022 she directed the Institute\u2019s \u2018Photo-graphing the Past\u2019\u00a0 educational-cultural project in Yeghegnadzor.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Gor Yengoyan<\/div>
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Council<\/span><\/span>
Liana Aghamyan<\/div>
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Lusine Chergeshtyan<\/div>

Lusine Chergeshtyan is a media and animation artist and video editor. She graduated from Toros Roslin Institute of Applied Arts, the Department of Fashion Design. She was the head of the media lab at the Utopiana Swiss-Armenian Cultural Creative Organization (2006-2009) and member of WOW art collective (2007-2010), graphic designer and director of animation series at Shoghakat television channel (2010-2018). Since 2016 she has been collaborating with the NGO Socioscope conducting research on the \"Women's problem in the 19th century periodical press\".<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Ashot Grigoryan<\/div>

Ashot Grigoryan has a PhD in Physics and Mathematics. He studied at Yerevan State University and at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. He translated and annotated Werner Heizenberg\u2019s Physik Und Philosophie<\/em> (<\/em>Hirzel Verlag, 1959)<\/em> and Physikalischen Prinzipien der Quantentheorie<\/em> (Hirzel Verlag, 1930). <\/em>In addition to his specialization in Physics he is interested in the Philosophy of Science. In the summer of 2011 Grigoryan organized a conference-seminar dedicated to the latter field at Yerevan State University. Recently he completed an extensive research project on early 20th<\/sup> century Armenian philosopher Misak Khostikian (Misak Khostikyan. David the Philosopher<\/em>, Johannissyan Institute, Yerevan, 2020).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Angela Harutyunyan<\/div>

Angela Harutyunyan (PhD) is Associate Professor of Art History at the American University of Beirut and head of the Art History program. She teaches courses on modern and contemporary art history and theory. She is editor of ARTMargins peer-reviewed journal (MIT Press). She has contributed essays on post-Soviet Armenian art and culture in academic journals, and critical articles related to contemporary art practices and cultural politics in Egypt and Lebanon. Her current research interests include post-Socialist art of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Socialist Realism, contemporary art in the Middle East, Marxian aesthetics, historical temporality, amongst others. She is a curator of several exhibitions, including This is the Time. This is the Record of the Time (with Nat Muller) at SMBA in Amsterdam and the AUB Art Galleries in Beirut (2014 and 2015). Her monograph\u00a0The Political Aesthetics of the Armenian Avant-garde: The Journey of the \u2018Painterly Real\u2019<\/em>\u00a0was published by Manchester University Press in 2017.Her second book co-authored with Eric Goodfield\u00a0After Revolution: Historical Presentism and the Political Eclipse of Postmodernity<\/em>\u00a0is forthcoming with Lueven University Press in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

Irina Shakhnazaryan<\/div>

Irina Shakhnazaryan is an art historian. She received her B.A. and M.A. at the Department of Art History and Theory at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia. In 2014 she defended her M.A. thesis on the artistic debates around realism in 1920s in Armenia. In 2016-2019, in collaboration with Socioscope NGO, she conducted a research on\u00a0The Problems of Women's Emancipation on the Pages of Soviet Armenian Press of the 1920s<\/em>. Since 2019 she is teaching a course titled \u201cHistory of Worldviews. Modernism and Postmodernism\u201d at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia. Her research interests include the interrelations of art and politics, avant-garde and realism, as well as the women\u2019s question and the correlations of politics and everyday life.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Coordinator<\/span><\/span>
Liana Aghamyan<\/div>
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Financial manager<\/span><\/span>
Khatun Atikyan<\/div>
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